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NEW BRITISH LINE IN THE WEST. SOUTH OF ST. QUENTIN

... begun en Christmas night, tete, when the whole of the French battle line on the Somme, and something more, was incorporated in our front. In the fighting which followed the Battle of the Somme, the British line was brought up to within one mile north-west ...

Published: Monday 28 January 1918
Newspaper: Evening Mail
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 233 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE SUPREME SACRIFICE

... iii .% mood, 1915, and rereised 'Ms commission in duly, 1916, being geaetted to the ltoyal West Kent. He was et the battle of the Somme. Bring transferred to tire M.0.t., be rime home for the trdiamg, and proeeeded tire rrinit again In February hot. ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1918
Newspaper: Lewisham Borough News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 167 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

;ed building used as a place or worship

... unit. In the second illustration is seen the present condition of the enormous mine-crater at Ham, exploded during the battle of the Somme in the middle of the village. A roadway for military traffic now skirts it, as shown. The mediaeval Castle of Ham, where ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1918
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 351 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE WESTERN FRONT

... THE WESTERN FRONT. It was in February that the result of the Battle of the Somme became manifest. Begun in the I?x‘ovious summer and continued until well into the autumn, with the capture of many strong positions which the enemy had heldv for two years ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1918
Newspaper: Bayswater Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 203 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FOR THEIR COUNTRY. Grratsr love bath no man than auk that a man law down his :ifs for his friends

... iCOIIIANir-SEBOT..MAJOR GILES, gazetted to the Royal West Keats , . He Lesidun Regiment, of Lewisham. ‘O,O has at the battle of the Somme. Being tra • killed in action. felled to the M.G.C., he came h for the E tni g, and proceeded tu the Front again in ...

183, HIGH ST., HOUNSLOW

... in every subsequent engagement with his battalion, including the battles of the Marne and'the Aisne, the first, second and third battles of Ypres, and the protracted battle of the Somme. was three times mentioned in despatches, promoted to the rank major ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1918
Newspaper: Middlesex Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 367 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Poet as War Correspondent: Mr.. John Masefield's Old Front Line

... Mr. Masefield's detailed and poignant description of The Old Front Line --viewed as the base from which the Great Battle of the Somme proceeded-- without emotion. The book is mainly geographical, but the Spirit of Place palpitates through it. In every ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1918
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 528 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

ON BATTLEFIELD

... . Looking-glass Charlock, white and flower. yellow. Hemp-nettle. Goosefool. Sow-thistle. The WOII , over which the Battle of the Somme was fought in the late summer and autumn of 1916, was during the winter and spring of 1917 a dreary waste of mud and ...

Published: Sunday 13 January 1918
Newspaper: The People
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 446 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

The Poet as War Correspondent: Mr.. John Masefield's Old Front Line

... Mr. Masefield's detailed and poignant description of The Old Front Line --viewed as the base from which the Great Battle of the Somme proceeded-- without emotion. The book is mainly geographical, but the Spirit of Place palpitates through it. In every ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1918
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 528 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

Removals & Storage. ALBT• BEATON, Hammersmith, W. 6

... to save the country from the bitterest engagements, one of which was Hun, bavi how returned from the war the great battle of the Somme It broken in th and maimed in body, here thet he beeame the are desetving of ell the help we cam give of the Military ...

Published: Friday 11 January 1918
Newspaper: West London Observer
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 493 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

jfc RIFLE WAKERS-

... Freytag-Lonng. / hoven, of the German Imperial Staff. I The Old Front Line (Heinemann, 2s. net). The beginning of the battle of the Somme. I John Masefield. International Military Digest (November* Windsor Magazine (January). Ayres Cricket I Companion for ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1918
Newspaper: Army and Navy Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 433 | Page: 15 | Tags: none